Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control device having buttons with automatically adjustable backlighting
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Application No.: US15165579Application Date: 2016-05-26
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Publication No.: US09860952B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Daniel L. Twaddell , Matthew Philip McDonald , Jason C. Killo , Jonathan Robert Quayle
- Applicant: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
- Applicant Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Assignee: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
- Current Assignee: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Agent Glen R. Farbanish; Philip N. Smith
- Main IPC: H05B33/08
- IPC: H05B33/08 ; H01H13/83 ; H05B37/02 ; H02B15/00

Abstract:
A control device may comprise a plurality of buttons, a plurality of light sources located behind the respective buttons and configured to illuminate the buttons, a light detector circuit configured to measure an ambient light level around the control device, and/or a control circuit configured to control the light sources to adjust surface illumination intensities of the respective buttons in response to the measured ambient light level. Each button may comprise indicia indicating a function of the button. The control circuit set the first button as active and the second button as inactive in response to an actuation of the first button. The control circuit may, based on the measured ambient light level, control the light sources to illuminate the first button to an active surface illumination intensity, and to illuminate the second button to an inactive surface illumination intensity that is less than the active surface illumination intensity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160353543A1 CONTROL DEVICE HAVING BUTTONS WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE BACKLIGHTING Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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